Cloud Platform Lead — Automation & Scale (Remote)

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 166,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is hiring for a remote cloud engineering leader serving the US. You will guide complex cloud initiatives, shape architecture, and mentor engineers to ensure scalable, secure cloud platforms across public and private environments.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and business teams to drive automation, deployment practices, and cost optimization while upholding Cisco security standards and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master's degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
• 5+ years experience designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based software, systems, or platform solutions.
• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Experience leading the technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, deployment strategies, capacity planning, or cloud infrastructure optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Design and develop scalable cloud architecture and infrastructure with availability, performance, security, and reliability in mind.
• Provide domain expertise on application infrastructure, cloud architecture, and platform engineering.
• Design and operate public and private cloud infrastructure and management platforms.
• Drive infrastructure automation and establish strategies for automating development, deployment, and operational requirements.
• Lead deployment strategy and capacity planning across development
• Analyze cloud infrastructure utilization and find opportunities to improve performance and optimize cost.
• Work with Product Management, Engineering, Security, and business teams to translate requirements into cloud architecture and infrastructure solutions.
• Advise teams and stakeholders on cloud configuration, architecture, and migration strategies.
• Apply security standards and procedures to cloud infrastructure, production access, and change management processes.
• Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks associated with cloud platforms and production environments.
• Drive improvements in the availability, performance, scalability, and stability of systems, services, and products at scale.
• Evaluate cloud platforms, technologies, and engineering practices and recommend enhancements based on business and technical requirements.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs and collaborate with cross-functional partners to align on architecture, priorities, and outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and share cloud engineering, automation, security, and operational guidelines across teams.
• Stay ahead of with cloud technologies, industry trends, and emerging engineering practices to help guide technical strategy.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Infrastructure automation

Cloud architecture

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree 8+ years

Master's degree 6+ years

PhD 3+ years

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is hiring for a remote cloud engineering leader serving the US. You will guide complex cloud initiatives, shape architecture, and mentor engineers to ensure scalable, secure cloud platforms across public and private environments.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and business teams to drive automation, deployment practices, and cost optimization while upholding Cisco security standards and operational excellence.